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France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 9 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Could you imagine what would happen if Google, Apple, Mozilla, etc said "okay, you just can't have a web browser in france"

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The french government will just make their own web browser and we’ll be well on our way to the great firewall of france.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    French person here. If their previous attempts at creating anything digital are any indication of the future we are in for a fun ride. I fully expect them to implement the blocking by hiding the page behind a black png.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Either rioting in the streets or widespread adoption of some open-source niche browser. Or both.

    (If this passes, it's either going to go unenforced or hit massive legal challenges—not a lawyer, but I think it's incompatible with freedom of association, which appears to be a legal right in France.)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    How would France even implement a way to restrict what version of software you download from the internet? IP based restrictions are easily defeated and this doesn't account for 3rd party sites based anywhere in the world except France.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How would you get a browser without a browser though? Memorize the ff download link and wget it perhaps?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    It's as though this proposal was dreamed up by someone who has never installed anything on their PC.

    Like are they going to block entire repositories? When you apt get install x from within france to they expect repositories to magically give you the french version?

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